Hey folks, we open sourced some reusable blocks for Jekyll sites (works with Forestry.io).

Here's a preview:

Gotcha! If any other Gastby devs are in here, I'd love your opinion on this too.

Like Jekyll, does most of your content live in Markdown files and Front Matter? Or to do you use other data sources for your Gatsby sites?

That's right, we currently support Jekyll and Hugo. Supporting Gatsby is something we would like to do but it's not currently on our roadmap. Do you exclusively use Gatsby?

For those of you interested, we do some pretty neat things under the hood. Here's a summary

• Built statically with Hugo. See our repo here
• Show when a user is logged in (in the nav bar) using cookies + Javascript
• Super fast site search with Algolia (try searching)
• Automatically generate responsive images with Cloudinary
• CMS with Forestry.io (of course)

Jason, if you get around to it, I'd love to hear what you think about Forestry.io. Cheers!

Hey, I'm the co-creator of Forestry.io. Jekyll makes A LOT of sense. It has a huge community behind it, development is super efficient and liquid is a great templating language.

(Shameless plug) We're working like dogs to make the best CMS for these sites and we have some super cool things coming out later this month. Here are some current highlights of using Forestry:

• Supports all Jekyll plugins
• Integrates with GitHub & Bitbucket (commits back to your repo, and watches your repo for changes)
• Zero configuration for you project
• We don't host (set up deployment to S3, Github Pages, FTP)
• Use Markdown or WYSIWYG

Thanks Chris! It's designed to work with a coder's workflow too. Where forestry will watch your repo and pull in changes.

Great, we're big fans of Hugo too! We're based in Canada so French localization is important for us too.

Jason, can you email me at scott@forestry.io and I'll look into it? Thanks!